harry wrote:
On Jun 7, 9:33 pm, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
On C4 right now, will watch again.
Turns out to be more interesting than I thought it would be - only one
thing, it makes out that as soon as the new gadgets came out, they
become commonplace - what a load of ******** that is.

They were the playthings of the relatively wealthy in the 1950s.
It was not until the 1960s that all theses appliances became
commonplace.

People bought this stuff then (50s) in the (usually correct)
expectation that it would last a lifetime. (Often from the
electricity board.) They used to hire out stuff as well.



It was Hoover that first turned out the stuff for the masses. But it
was cheap ****. Back then I used to repair it.
The first automatic washing machine for the masses was was my
speciality.

The Hoover Keymatic? We had one, which was a great education in how
automation could be implemented. It worked well for ages, until we ran
out of spare controllers, and later, microswitches for the controllers.
It helped that Dad was an electrical engineer.

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Tciao for Now!

John.